The United Nations

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The headquarters of the UN is in Manhattan, New York City, and is subject to extraterritoriality.

Further main offices are situated in Geneva, Nairobi, and Vienna. The organization is financed
by assessed and voluntary contributions from its member states.

On 25 April 1945, 50 governments met in San Francisco for a conference and started drafting
the UN Charter, which was adopted on 25 June 1945 in the San Francisco´s Opera House, and
signed on 26 June 1945 in the Herbst Theatre auditorium in the Veteran War Memorial
Building.

The UN's mission to preserve world peace was complicated in its early decades during the Cold
War between the United States and Soviet Union and their respective allies.

Its missions have consisted primarily of unarmed military observers and lightly armed troops
with primarily monitoring, reporting and confidence-building roles.

The organization's membership grew significantly following widespread decolonization which

started in the 1960s.

Is an intergovernmental organization that was tasked to maintain international peace and

security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international co-operation and be a
center for harmonizing the actions of nations.

In the century prior to the UN's creation, several international treaty organizations such as
the International Committee of the Red Cross was formed to ensure protection and assistance
for victims of armed conflict and strife.[9] In 1914, a political assassination in Sarajevo set off a
chain of events that led to the outbreak of World War I.

As more and more young men were sent down into the trenches, influential voices in the
United States and Britain began calling for the establishment of a permanent international body
to maintain peace in the postwar world. President Woodrow Wilson became a vocal advocate
of this concept, and in 1918 he included a sketch of the international body in his 14-point
proposal to end the war.

Links: https://www.un.org/; https://www.youtube.com/unitednations;

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